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201903: Private Health Insurance in Ireland: Trends and Determinants

Kanika Kapur

201902: Upper Bounds on Risk Aversion under Mean-variance Utility

Kevin Denny

201901: Quantitative Easing and the Hot Potato Effect: Evidence from Euro Area Banks

Ellen Ryan and Karl Whelan

201823: Towards Renewable Electricity in Europe: An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Renewable Electricity Development in the European Union

Ciarán Mac Domhnaill and Lisa Ryan

201822: Harnessing Electricity Retail Tariffs to Support Climate Change Policy

Lisa Ryan, Sarah La Monaca, Linda Mastrandrea and Petr Spodniak

201821: The Next World and the New World: Relief, Migration, and the Great Irish Famine

Cormac Ó Gráda

201820: Population and Poverty in Ireland on the Eve of the Great Famine

Alan Fernihough and Cormac Ó Gráda

201819: Solving Leontief's Paradox with Endogenous Growth Theory

George Sorg-Langhans, Clemens C. Struck and Adnan Velic

201818: The Effect of Tax Treaties on Market Based Finance: Evidence using Firm-Level Data

Ronald Davies and Neill Killeen

201817: The Great Recession and Mental Health: the Effect of Income Loss on the Psychological Health of Young Mothers

Fiona M. Kiernan

201816: Apocalypse now? - Climate change and war in Africa

Stijn van Weezel

201815: On the decline of war

Michael Spagat and Stijn van Weezel

201814: Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State

Arnaud Chevalier, Benjamin Elsner, Andreas Lichter and Nico Pestel

201813: From China with Love: The Role of FDI from Third Countries on EU Competition and R&D Activities

Ronald Davies

201812: Irexit: Making the Worst of a Bad Situation

Ronald Davies and Joseph Francois

201811: Basic Stata Graphics for Economics Students

Kevin Denny

201810: Gravity and Migration before Railways: Evidence from Parisian Prostitutes and Revolutionaries

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

201809: Tax Refunds and Income Manipulation - Evidence from the EITC

Florian Buhlmann, Benjamin Elsner and Andreas Peichl

201808: Taking the Skill Bias out of Global Migration

Costanza Biavaschi, Micha? Burzynski, Benjamin Elsner and Joël Machado

201807: Export Processing Zones and the Composition of Greenfield FDI

Ronald Davies and Rodolphe Desbordes

201806: A Distributional Analysis of Upper Secondary School Performance

John Cullinan, Kevin Denny and Darragh Flannery

201805: Old Firms and New Products: Does Experience Increase Survival?

Martina Lawless and Zuzanna Studnicka

201804: Notes on Guilds on the Eve of the French Revoloution

Cormac Ó Gráda

201803: Famine and Disease in Economic History: A Summary Introduction

Guido Alfani and Cormac Ó Gráda

201802: Changes in BMI in a Cohort of Irish Children: Some Decompositions and Counterfactuals

David (David Patrick) Madden

201801: On the Firms’ Decision to Hire Academic Scientists

Catalina Martínez and Sarah Parlane

201729: Labor Market Frictions, Investment and Capital Flows

Clemens C. Struck

201728: Mostly Harmless? A Subnational Analysis of the Aid-Conflict Nexus

Stijn van Weezel

201727: Banking Crises and Investments in Innovation

Oana Peia

201726: Energy Efficiency and Economy-wide Rebound: Realising a Net Gain to Society?

Lisa Ryan, Karen Turner and Nina Campbell

201725: The Effect of Civil War Violence on Aid Allocations in Uganda

Stijn van Weezel

201724: On the Interaction of Growth, Trade and International Macroeconomics

Clemens C. Struck

201723: More Education, Less Volatility? The Effect of Education on Earnings Volatility over the Life Cycle

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

201722: Mind the Gap: Revisiting the Concentration Index for Overweight

David (David Patrick) Madden

201721: David Versus Goliath: Fundamental Patterns and Predictions in Modern Wars and Terrorist Campaigns

Michael Spagat, Neil Johnson and Stijn van Weezel

201720: Are new states more corrupt? Expert opinions vs. firms’ experiences

Tamanna Adhikari, Michael Breen and Robert Gillanders

201719: Reaching Up and Reaching Out: The Impact of Competition on Firms’ Productivity and Export Decisions

Kate Hynes, Eric Evans Osei Opoku and Isabel K. M. Yan

201718: Transport Infrastructure Investments and Competition for FDI

Kate Hynes, Jie Ma and Cheng Yuan

201717: The Impact of Terrorism on Well-being: Evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing

Andrew Clark, Orla Doyle and Elena Stancanelli

201716: Energy efficiency in the food retail sector: Barriers, drivers, and acceptable policies

Christopher Dixon-O’Mara and Lisa Ryan

201715: The First 2,000 Days and Child Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Home Visiting

Orla Doyle

201714: Optimal Management of Supply Disruptions when Contracting with Unreliable, Risk-averse, Suppliers

Sarah Parlane and Ying-Yi Tsai

201713: Notes on the Demography of the Famine in Ulster

Cormac Ó Gráda

201712: Local linkages: The interdependence of foreign and domestic firms

Kate Hynes, Yum K. Kwan and Anthony Foley

201711: Technological Dynamism in a Stagnant Sector: Safety at Sea during the Early Industrial Revolution

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

201710: Speed under Sail, 1750–1830

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

201709: Brendan M. Walsh (1940-2016): The Economist at Work

J. Peter Neary and Cormac Ó Gráda

201708: The Heterogeneous Impact of Brexit: Early Indications from the FTSE

Ronald Davies and Zuzanna Studnicka

201707: Immigrants and Savers: A Rich New Database on the Irish in 1850s New York

Simone Wegge, Tyler Anbinder and Cormac Ó Gráda

201706: Non-Tariff Barriers, Enforcement, and Revenues: The Use of Anti-Dumping as a Revenue Generating Trade Policy

Igor Bagayev, Ronald Davies, Panos Hatzipanayotou, Panos Konstantinou and Marie Rau